{"id":175309,"date":"2023-11-02T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/massive-anomaly-within-earths-mantle-may-be-remnant-of-collision-that-formed-moon"},"modified":"2023-11-02T03:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T08:22:45","slug":"massive-anomaly-within-earths-mantle-may-be-remnant-of-collision-that-formed-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/massive-anomaly-within-earths-mantle-may-be-remnant-of-collision-that-formed-moon","title":{"rendered":"Massive anomaly within Earth\u2019s mantle may be remnant of collision that formed moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-anomaly-within-earths-mantle-may-be-remnant-of-collision-that-formed-moon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary international research team has recently discovered that a massive anomaly deep within the Earth\u2019s interior may be a remnant of the collision about 4.5 billion years ago that formed the moon.<\/p>\n<p>This research offers important new insights not only into Earth\u2019s internal structure but also its long-term evolution and the formation of the inner solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which relied on computational fluid dynamics methods pioneered by Prof. Deng Hongping of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06589-1\">published<\/a> as a featured cover in <i>Nature<\/i> on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary international research team has recently discovered that a massive anomaly deep within the Earth\u2019s interior may be a remnant of the collision about 4.5 billion years ago that formed the moon. This research offers important new insights not only into Earth\u2019s internal structure but also its long-term evolution and the formation of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}